What was new on this site: up to June 2001
For the most recent additions, with links, see the
update page.
For brief details of the current quarter's additions, see
What's new on this site.
3 June 2001:
Links checked and updated where necessary; apparently defunct links marked.
A number of new links added:
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Medieval source material on the internet:
- David Blackwell's images of a number of useful books, now at a new home on the
website of the United States Internet Genealogical Society (not all of these are complete):
- Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire 1613...
eds Sir G.J. Armytage and J.P. Rylands (Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vol.58, 1909)
- Rev. J. Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, vol.2 (1877)
- Isaac H. Jeayes, Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters (1906)
- Sir N.H. Nicolas, ed., Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, 1443-1461, (1837)
- W.P.W. Phillimore, ed.,
Calendars of wills and administrations in the Consistory court of the
bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1516 to 1652
(with peculiar jurisdictions to 1790) (British Record Society, Index Library 7, 1892)
- William Smith Porter, Notes from a Peakland Parish [Hope, Derbyshire] (1923)
- Joseph Tilley, Old Halls and Manors of Derbyshire, vols 1-4 (1892-1902)
- Victoria County History, Derbyshire, vol.1 (1907) and Lancashire,
Vol.3 (1907)
- John Pym Yeatman, The Feudal History of the County of Derby, vols 1 and 5 (1886, 1910)
- Gerald of Wales, Description of Wales (Project Gutenberg)
- Images of the Harleian Society's (1882) edition of the Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580
(with additions from other visitations (Matthew Ortiz)
- Images of some documents:
two charters and an extract from the Register of the York
Corpus Christi Guild from the 15th century, and an extract from the York
Bakers' Guild Account Book from the 16th (Meg Twycross, Lancaster University:)
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Brief guide to medieval genealogy:
- Chronology and dating section:
list of Lord Mayors of London (Steve and Rita James, SteelJam)
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Medieval families on the internet:
- Images of a number of chart and narrative pedigrees from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (1882)
for the Baggily, Booth, Brereton, Dutton, Hatton, Hellesby, Kingesley, Massy,
Savage, Stanley, Tatton, Thornton, Vernon, Warburton and Winnington families;
also images of extracts from L.B. Goodnow's The Brett Genealogy (1915) (Matthew Ortiz)
- Websites containing medieval material on the Eacott and Gumbleton families
- Texts of two 19th-century works on Gundred, the wife of William de Warenne, first Earl of Surrey
(Tom Burch and Ronnie Warren, Old Books on CD)
11 May 2001:
Style sheets modified to improve the appearance of the site (I hope).
Navigation bar with drop-down menus added at the top of each page, to allow easier navigation within the site.
Note about HTML/style-sheet representation of chart pedigrees
added to the About this site section.
All links checked; apparently defunct links marked or removed.
A number of new links added:
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Medieval source material on the internet section:
- Richard Hill's Commonplace book
(15th century; Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
- Life, Translation, Miracles, etc., of St Gilbert of Sempringham
(Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
- John of Worcester's Chronicle
(Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
- Old English translation of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica
(Early Manuscripts at Oxford University)
- Indexes to Thomas Nicholas'
History and Antiquities of Glamorganshire and its Families (1874) (GENUKI)
- List of sheriffs of Yorkshire, from Thomas Langdale's
Topographical History of Yorkshire (1822) (GENUKI)
- Avril M. Morris, The Life of St Kyneburgha
(Castor and Ailsworth Millennium Site)
- English Deeds Collection (Harvard Law School Library)
- Abstracts of medieval records concerning Betley, Staffordshire
(Patrick Corness, Sources for Betley history)
- Index to wills proved at Gloucester, 1541-1858 (Gloucestershire Record Office)
- Illustrations of Church Monuments and Cadaver Tombs
(Churchmouse website)
- Extracts from records and biographical notes relating to the Carmelite priories at Northallerton
and York (Richard Copsey, British Province of Carmelite Friars)
- Links page:
- Section on search engines revised
- GENUKI search page added
- Centre for Metropolitan History (Institute of Historical Research)
- Brief guide to medieval genealogy:
- Medieval English families on the internet:
new items for the Langley and Puttenham families
- Historical and record societies: Royal Historical Society (including
lists of contents for Camden Series and Transactions)
- City of London Livery Companies: links added to websites of the
Drapers, Ironmongers, Clothworkers, Leathersellers, Pewterers, Woolmen, Fruiterers,
Stationers, Horners, Framework Knitters, Chartered Secretaries and Watermen (not all functional yet)
24 February 2001: All links on the site checked, and a number of apparently defunct ones - sadly - removed.
A number of new links added:
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Medieval source material on the internet section:
- Translation of a Hundred Roll, Stamford, 1275 (David Roffe)
- Eleven local Domesday studies articles, relating to Lincolnshire and Cheshire (David Roffe)
- Transcripts (in progress) of Edmund Spenser's letters, as secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1580-1582,
and the same author's A vewe of the present state of Ireland (1596) (Hap Hazard, Cambridge University)
- Early manuscripts at Oxford University (images) - now being redesigned after a server failure
- Links page:
- A tiny section on Continental genealogy, with links to Donald Jackman's
Medieval Prosopography site and online material relating to Europäische Stammtafeln
- The UK AltaVista site (as the US site seems to be inaccessible for me) and the
new Google newsgroup service (incorporating Deja.com)
- Brief guide to medieval genealogy:
- Domesday Book:
- A reference added to David Roffe's recent book on Domesday, with a link to the text of a lecture
- David Roffe's listing of pre-1066 thegns, and their 1086 successors
- A lecture by David Roffe on Domesday databases
- A paper by William Kappelle discussing the purpose of the survey
- Land Taxes and Feudal Surveys:
a lecture by David Roffe on the Hundred Rolls, and a note of the forthcoming
publication of further rolls by the Sheffield Hundred Rolls Project
- Medieval English families on the internet: chronological
outline for William Marshal - apparently defunct the last time I checked - restored
- About this site: notes added about the index and counter facilities
and the link-checking software used for this site
10 February 2001: New counter added, courtesy of
TheCounter.com, to replace the previous one,
now apparently deceased (FXWeb Web Technologies: the bear's ears now wiggle, but
he can't count).
04 February 2001: A number of new links added:
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Medieval source material on the internet section:
- A.M. Sellar's translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical history
- Joseph Stevenson's translation of William of Newburgh's History
- Latin text of the Colchester Chronicle, 1372-9, from borough records
- Extracts from Joseph Tilley's Old Halls and Manors of Derbyshire, Vol.1 (1892)
- E.M.G. Routh's Memoir of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1924)
- James Gairdner's Henry the Seventh (1899)
- Martin Hume's The Wives of Henry the Eighth (1905)
- Agnes Strickland's Jane Seymour, from Lives of the Queens of England (1877)
- Calendar of 14th- and 15th-century Colchester Deeds from the archives of the Mercers' Company of London
- List of wills from Eyam, Derbyshire, 1586-1650
- Images and transcripts of five Tudor letters
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Links page:
- British Library catalogue (updated)
- For online maps outside Great Britain,
link to MapQuest replaced by one to the much better multimap.com
- Catholic History's list of equivalent Latin and modern place-names from early printed books
- Brief guide to medieval genealogy:
- Heraldry section: a
compilation of three early rolls of arms, and an article on Geoffrey Plantagenet's funerary enamel plaque,
both on the Heraldica web site.
- Historical and record societies section:
Catholic Record Society web site.
25 January 2001:
Improved search facility added, courtesy of Atomz,
allowing more powerful searches, including exact phrases.
13 January 2001:
The Medieval source material on the internet section has been
completely reorganised, giving fuller bibliographical details wherever possible.
Many new items have been added to this section, the most significant being to the
gallica web site, where a large quantity of material
is available in PDF format (including over 160 volumes of the Rolls Series, the Recueil des
historiens des croisades series and the three-volume Syllabus of Rymer's Foedera).
Other new links include:
- Also in the Medieval source material on the internet section,
a number of 'dark ages' texts on Keith Matthews' web site, London City apprenticeship abstracts
from the Society of Genealogists at Origins.net (pay-per-view) and online pedigrees
from the visitation of Cheshire, 1580 (in progress)
- In the Medieval English families on the internet section,
links for Salisbury, Stanley and Winter added
- In the links section,
items for the British Library manuscripts catalogue, Historical Maps (19th-century Ordnance Survey maps online),
Gazetteer of British Place Names, Database of Houses and
Federation of Family History Societies online bookshop added
01 January 2001:
Transcripts of documents
relating to Gerbod, Earl of Chester and Gundred,
the wife of William of Warenne, first Earl of Surrey, added.
28 November 2000:
Frames presentation of Argentein family history added.
24 November 2000:
Finished checking and updating links throughout the site.
12 November 2000:
About 30 links to Pat Patterson's site,
added in the medieval English families section,
together with several other links in other sections.
3 October 2000:
Earls Colne, Essex:
Records of an English Village 1375-1854 (Cambridge University).
Links added, in the section on
medieval source material on the internet
to the transcripts of documents;
and in the brief guide to medieval English genealogy
to the reference section.
1-2 October 2000:
A number of new links added, including:
27-28 September 2000:
A number of new links added, including:
6 September 2000:
List of Medieval English families on the internet added.
2 June 2000:
Search facility added, courtesy of FreeFind [since replaced, 25/01/2001].
29 May 2000:
A number of new links added, including:
- Orbis Latinus,
by Dr J.G.Th. Graesse (1909): a gazetteer of Latin place-names (Columbia University)
- Materials for medieval studies: an extensive bibliography (Leeds University)
- Landranger search:
search facility for place-names (Ordnance Survey)
- Books we Own:
list of books which can be searched by volunteers,
including editions of Feudal Aids, inquisitions post mortem
and other medieval records (RootsWeb)
- Heralds' visitations of Dorset and
Somerset in 1623:
images and downloadable PDF files, from Harleian Society editions (Nigel Batty-Smith)
10 May 2000:
Existing sections revised, and A brief guide to medieval English genealogy added.